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Title: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: supertophe on September 11, 2011, 11:09:06 pm: I am about 5"2 with a +1 ape index and have set myself the goal of doing a 1-4-7, so this got me thinking who's the shortest person/kid to have done a 1-5-9?

Chris
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Jim on September 12, 2011, 01:10:01 am: are we talking 1-5-9 or 1-5-8.5?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Nike Air on September 12, 2011, 08:46:39 am: Quote from: Jim on September 12, 2011, 01:10:01 am
are we talking 1-5-9 or 1-5-8.5?
good point, i was buzzing to do 1 5 9 when i did but then found out it was 8.5. Gutted.....
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: abarro81 on September 12, 2011, 10:00:17 am: Ru's done 1-5-9 hasn't he? He's not exactly tall, though I have no idea what that amounts to in numbers.
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: a dense loner on September 12, 2011, 10:08:41 am: technically ru's done 1-5 then taken his bottom hand off and done a one-armer way past the point of where most people finish then grabbed 9 on his way back down. i don't know if we can count this as 1-5-9 or just 1-5-most mutated thing ever seen. for the record he's 4ft8
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: dave on September 12, 2011, 10:32:39 am: Shortest 1-5-9 is meaningless if the person weighs half a stone.

More impressive would be the person doing 159 with the most unfavourable armlength to weight ratio.
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: a dense loner on September 12, 2011, 10:37:11 am: i agree completely dave which is why i also discount tall people dynoing and climbing on grit
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: SA Chris on September 12, 2011, 10:49:22 am: Why limit it to dynos and grit?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: GCW on September 12, 2011, 10:50:14 am: Because everything else is shit?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Johnny Brown on September 12, 2011, 10:52:14 am: Quote
i agree completely dave which is why i also discount tall people dynoing and climbing on grit

The pantheon of gritstone legends is hardly filled with the lanky though is it? Unless you forgot a comma and you actually just meant 'I discount climbing on grit'?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: a dense loner on September 12, 2011, 11:14:35 am: nobody mentioned pantheons and their legacys? i just said i discount tall people dynoing and climbing on grit
for the record, i was on the grit yesterday. did i enjoy it? no
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: chris05 on September 12, 2011, 11:24:00 am: Quote from: a dense loner on September 12, 2011, 11:14:35 am
nobody mentioned pantheons and their legacys? i just said i discount tall people dynoing and climbing on grit
for the record, i was on the grit yesterday. did i enjoy it? no

You should write a blog with insights like that.. ;)
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: shark on September 12, 2011, 12:25:18 pm: Quote from: a dense loner on September 12, 2011, 11:14:35 am
nobody mentioned pantheons and their legacys? i just said i discount tall people dynoing and climbing on grit
for the record, i was on the grit yesterday. did i enjoy it? no

:-\
Is that:
tall people dynoing and (tall people) climbing on grit
or
tall people dynoing and (any) climbing on grit
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Monolith on September 12, 2011, 11:15:13 pm: Quote from: chris05 on September 12, 2011, 11:24:00 am
You should write a blog with insights like that.. ;)

Amen! When will it happen!?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: saltbeef on September 12, 2011, 11:17:30 pm: Quote from: Nike Air on September 12, 2011, 08:46:39 am
Quote from: Jim on September 12, 2011, 01:10:01 am
are we talking 1-5-9 or 1-5-8.5?
good point, i was buzzing to do 1 5 9 when i did but then found out it was 8.5. Gutted.....

back around!
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: yorkshireman on September 13, 2011, 12:03:07 am: I'm 5' 7 with a +¾ ape and I think 1-4-7 is miles although I've done it before bit not since my last big injury.can't imagine having the reach for 1-5-8
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: supertophe on September 13, 2011, 12:41:05 am: Quote from: Jim on September 12, 2011, 01:10:01 am
are we talking 1-5-9 or 1-5-8.5?

I don't get it why would you make the last rung a half :S, or am i missing something obvious?

Who's this Ru guy?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: SA Chris on September 13, 2011, 08:58:31 am: RuPaul.

See google.
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: moose on September 13, 2011, 09:18:31 am: Quote from: supertophe on September 13, 2011, 12:41:05 am
I don't get it why would you make the last rung a half :S, or am i missing something obvious?

I just can't imagine why this topic would get any, even slightly inane answers, it defies all reason. Is nothing sacred? Who'll think of the children!?
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Stu Littlefair on September 13, 2011, 09:22:19 am: Quote from: supertophe on September 13, 2011, 12:41:05 am
Quote from: Jim on September 12, 2011, 01:10:01 am
are we talking 1-5-9 or 1-5-8.5?

I don't get it why would you make the last rung a half :S, or am i missing something obvious?

Who's this Ru guy?

Don't worry about it. Ru's just a myth; a legend used to scare children to sleep at night.

1-5-9(8.5) was the original rung spacing at the School; a clever use of progression techniques...
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Doylo on September 13, 2011, 09:27:13 am: superRu
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: rodma on September 21, 2011, 01:04:11 pm: Quote from: yorkshireman on September 13, 2011, 12:03:07 am
I'm 5' 7 with a +¾ ape and I think 1-4-7 is miles although I've done it before bit not since my last big injury.can't imagine having the ~~reach~~ strength for 1-5-8

MTFU
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Lopez on September 21, 2011, 03:01:16 pm: Quote from: yorkshireman on September 13, 2011, 12:03:07 am
I'm 5' 7 with a +¾ ape and I think 1-4-7 is miles although I've done it before bit not since my last big injury.can't imagine having the reach for 1-5-8

5'9 with -1/2 ape index, and can do 1-5-8 and 1-4-8. No 9th rung where i train, which is handy enough as sure as hell i can't do it... yet.

Reach is not a problem, train/pull harder and you'll get to look smug when you burn off people with longer reach. :jab:

Save the height wild card as a excuse to fail in proper routes. It will look more convincing that way. :bounce:
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Nibile on September 21, 2011, 03:08:20 pm: I am 173 cm tall, I think that equals to 5'8". I have done 1-5-8 once and never touched a campus board ever since.
I think with some more technique (twisting instead of staying frontal) I could have done more but who knows.
I must have a vid made by The Guru somewhere, with various feats of failure on a campus board.
Title: Re: short people that have done 1-5-9?
Post by: Nibile on September 21, 2011, 03:23:57 pm: here:
http://youtu.be/8OnpXttXUaQ (http://youtu.be/8OnpXttXUaQ)